p. 24 | Review and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 14. (4/5/1906)

Religious Liberty Number of the Watchman

By Editor

The management announce that they “are planning to issue a religious liberty number of the Watchman at as early a date as possible, probably sometime the latter part of April.” There is need of disseminating the truth upon this subject, and we hope this special number of the Watchman may have a large circulation.

Conflict Between Capital and Labor

The author of “Conflict Between Capital and Labor,” Elder E. T. Russell, the president of the Central Union Conference, will deliver an address in Pythian Temple in this city next Sunday evening. The present and future conditions in the industrial world and their meaning from a Bible standpoint will be considered.

Simpson Opens Pasadena Meetings

ACCORDING to the Pasadena (Cal.) Star of March 20, “fully one thousand people were turned away” from the Y. M. C. A. auditorium in that city on the previous Sunday evening, when Elder W. W. Simpson spoke on the “Millennium, or the Binding of Satan.” This was the opening of a series of meetings in Pasadena.

Andersons En Route to Amoy

PROF. F. W. FIELD, writing under date of February 19, reports the arrival of Brother and Sister B. L. Anderson, of Wisconsin, en route to Amoy, China. They arrived in Yokohama on Friday, February 16, and as their boat remained in the harbor several days, they had a pleasant visit with our workers in Tokyo, and then went overland to Kobe, where they were to spend several days.

Literature Fund for Soldiers

By Editor

We have recently received a gift of one dollar from an old soldier whose heart has been touched for the soldiers of the regular army of the United States. He desires to have it used as a nucleus in raising a fund to furnish literature for this class. Who will add to his gift and swell the fund for so worthy a cause? Send your offering to the General Conference Treasury, Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C.

Elders Daniells and Irwin Return

ELDERS A. G. DANIELLS and G. A. Irwin returned to Washington on Wednesday of last week. They give an encouraging report of the meetings which they have attended, and of their council in California. On their return journey they met with the brethren and sisters at Boulder and Denver, Colo., and College View, Neb. These gatherings were very profitable, and enabled the people to gain an intelligent view of our present situation. The spirit of loyalty to this message which is everywhere revealed is a most hopeful feature in this testing time.

Sunday-Closing Bill in Washington

By Editor

The following paragraphs are taken from the Washington Post of March 31:—

The District Commissioners yesterday recommended favorable action upon H. R. bill 16483, which provides for certain places of business in the District to be closed on Sunday, referred to them for a report several weeks ago by Chairman Babcock, of the District Committee of the House.

A public hearing was given by the Commissioners on this bill, and no opposition was offered, and it was apparently, according to the Commissioners, wanted by the community in general.

The Commissioners in their report made the following statement upon the bill:—

“The legislation proposed in this bill is substantially similar to that embodied in H. R. bill 11819, of the Fifty-eighth Congress, second session, having the same title, upon which the Commissioners made a favorable report, and which passed the House of Representatives.

“The bill, if enacted, will give protection on their rest day to the classes which seem to be especially in need of it. It does not seem to be necessary to argue the well-settled question that legislation for the protection of the common day of rest is constitutional and expedient.”

This is the bill to which reference was made in our editorial columns last week. If “a public hearing was given by the Commissioners on this bill, and no opposition was offered,” it was because those opposed to the bill had no notice of any such hearing. We have not thus far found any one who knew of any hearing on this bill. The matter will now be taken up with the House Committee on the District of Columbia.

From the report of the Commissioners as given in the Evening Star of the same date, we take the following:—

The Commissioners recommend that no action be taken upon H. R. bill 16556, “Prohibiting labor on buildings, and so forth, in the District of Columbia on the sabbath day,” and H. R. bill 10510, “To further protect the first day of the week as a day of rest in the District of Columbia,” which were also referred to them from your committee.

Both of these bills have been quite fully discussed in the columns of the REVIEW.